Again an unknown Porsche 911 1964 has been found in a barn. The story began when I was contacted last week as spokesperson for the 232 Registry of 911's from 1964 on website www.vierenzestig.nl. I received an e-mail from a company in the United States that was looking for more information about a car they had been dragging out of a barn one week earlier in Maine. Also: if I knew an interested party: the car was for sale. It was a pretty big car company and they knew the value of a 1964 Porsche 911, but the price was negotiable and it sounded interesting.
I arranged a Kardex and found out this was a European delivery car that was later exported to the United States. I immediately sent over Chip Davis – an appraisal expert who was once sent to my house by an American collector to inspect one of my cars. Last Friday the first pictures came in. The car was very rusty and worse than I had hoped. However: all original parts that belong to the car will still there, so I became very interested. Initially I had plans to buy the car and restore it, but then I realized that this would set me back around 250.000 dollars, because a project like this has to be done by Porsche in Stuttgart. I know there are better experts than Porsche on these cars, but now that they’re restoring a real 901 their standards must be high.
Unfortunately in the meantime there was now another potential buyer, who offered more than the asking price, so negotiation was no longer a possibility. In fact, if I did not say yes right away and send a 50.000 dollar deposit, the car would have been sold to the other party. And so I made the deal over the phone. The car will won’t end up in my damp garage near my house, because the project is too large for me. Fortunately, there are companies that have the expertise for projects like this one. The new owner is Porsche Centrum Gelderland in the Netherlands that has it’s own Porsche Classic Center. Hopefully they just put it there, next to three other 1964 Porsches 911 in their collection. Unwashed and ‘dans son jus' as the French say.
I just published a link with over 300 photos on website www.vierenzestig.nl
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